{"id":1748,"date":"2018-10-29T15:51:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T19:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amalgaminsights.com\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2022-01-02T23:47:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T07:47:16","slug":"tom-petrocelli-provides-context-for-ibms-acquisition-of-red-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amalgaminsights.com\/2018\/10\/29\/tom-petrocelli-provides-context-for-ibms-acquisition-of-red-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Petrocelli Provides Context for IBM&#8217;s Acquisition of Red Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-474\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amalgaminsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TomPetrocelliAI.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amalgaminsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TomPetrocelliAI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Petrocelli, Amalgam Insights Research Fellow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In light of yesterday&#8217;s announcement that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhat.com\/en\/about\/press-releases\/ibm-acquire-red-hat-completely-changing-cloud-landscape-and-becoming-world%E2%80%99s-1-hybrid-cloud-provider\">IBM is planning to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion<\/a>, we&#8217;d like to share with you some of our recent coverage and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amalgaminsights.com\/?s=red+hat\">mentions of Red Hat<\/a> to provide context for this gargantuan acquisition.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amalgaminsights.com\/author\/tom\/\">DevOps Research Fellow Tom Petrocelli<\/a> explained how&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amalgaminsights.com\/2018\/02\/21\/market-milestone-red-hat-acquires-coreos-changing-the-container-landscape\/\">Red Hat&#8217;s purchase of CoreOS<\/a> was transformative for the&nbsp; container landscape<\/li>\n<li>In May, Petrocelli noted in context of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amalgaminsights.com\/2018\/05\/03\/kubeconcloudnativecon-europe-2018-demonstrates-the-breadth-and-width-of-kubernetes\/\">KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe<\/a> how IBM and Red Hat were &#8220;major enterprise infrastructure software vendor(s)&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In August, Petrocelli highlighted both Red Hat and IBM in his Analyst Insight on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amalgaminsights.com\/2018\/08\/14\/infrastructure-as-code-provides-advantages-for-proactive-compliance\/\">Infrastructure as Code<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In October, Petrocelli noted Red Hat&#8217;s status as an Open Source stalwart in light of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amalgaminsights.com\/2018\/10\/01\/oracle-delivers-a-foss-surprise\/\">Oracle&#8217;s FOSS Surprise<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In addition, Petrocelli explained why Infrastructure as Code was necessary for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amalgaminsights.com\/2018\/10\/15\/now-available-infrastructure-as-code-managing-hybrid-multi-cloud-infrastructure-at-scale\/\">hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructure management in a well-regarded BrightTALK webinar.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more about the state of Enterprise Free Open Source Software and the state of DevOps, make sure you continue to follow Tom Petrocelli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amalgaminsights.com\/author\/tom\">on this website<\/a> and his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tompetrocelli\">Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of yesterday&#8217;s announcement that IBM is planning to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion, we&#8217;d like to share with you some of our recent coverage and mentions of Red Hat to provide context for this gargantuan acquisition. In February, DevOps Research Fellow Tom Petrocelli explained how&nbsp;Red Hat&#8217;s purchase of CoreOS was transformative for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-science"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amalgaminsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amalgaminsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amalgaminsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amalgaminsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amalgaminsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amalgaminsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13231,"href":"https:\/\/amalgaminsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/13231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amalgaminsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amalgaminsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amalgaminsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}